As far as I've seen, this isn't possible (with CSS alone). The most common way to achieve something similar is by using different background colors, which I believe is done like this... http://dev.rsalazar.name/css.d/ol-enum.html
Now, I found a minor issue with the "typical approach" where IE (6 & 7) fails the padding/negative-margin match by 1px. Also, I added a try I was playing with, that it's way too much (or simply jargon) for the IE's and it, once again, bring me with the issue Fx has when dealing with the ::before & ::after pseudo-elements. If anyone has time, please check it and let me know your thoughts on this --Oh, and sorry for the low contrast :p By the way, this isn't really a new fad, this effect and others (like the one above) are really useful for reading code and even some medium/large "numbered" texts, and had been around for some time now. tedd wrote: > At 7:47 AM -0700 9/29/07, Joel D Canfield wrote: > >> Maybe it's just me, but I've never thought of this before, yet I've seen >> it asked here twice in the past week. New fad? >> >> joel >> > > Same here -- must be a new fad. > > However, it doesn't seem to me to be that useful: > > http://www.webbytedd.com/bb/first-item-rollover/ > > Cheers, > > tedd > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/